I usually prefer staying in an apartment or villa while on holiday, but two things always niggle me beyond endurance. The first is the fittings and contents. There seems to be an unwritten rule that everything in it has to be not quite bad enough to lodge a complaint, yet sufficiently crap to not want to steal it. Secondly, the owners never tell you honestly what arrangements have been made for getting the keys. The caretaker/cleaner always does something different to what you've been told. We arrived in spain last week, with written instructions to phone the guy when we had an eta, and that he wouldn't go to the place until he'd heard from me. This suited me perfectly, we'd been on the go since 4am, and I didn't want to be on a timetable from the moment we landed. I had planned to scout the place out, then go and get lunch and a beer before calling. But I couldn't find the address on the satnav, (they'd given me a non existing address,) so I phoned him from the hire car. He gave me the correct address, and asked what time was I arriving because his wife had already been waiting there for an hour. Fucksake. So by the time we got there, his Mrs gave mine an earful while I spent half an hour parking the car, (market day,) I showed her the email from the owners, but it still meant nobody was happy. I nominate them as cunts. The cunts.